How did you start PH SPOT? / How can I start a side hustle? – Ask Me Anything With Sujani, From Inside The Public Health Career Club
07/19/23 • 24 min
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This episode is from inside PH SPOT’s membership community: The Public Health Career Club.
You’ll get to listen in on a training session where career club members got a chance to ask Sujani questions. In this episode, we share one of those questions: How did you start PH SPOT? / How can I start a side hustle?
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
- How Sujani started to see herself as someone who could build solutions to solve problems.
- The story of the first side hustle she launched: a not-for-profit organization
- How and why PH SPOT was built
- Why PH SPOT is incorporated federally
- How to get started with your idea
- About The Public Health Career Club, PH SPOT’s membership community.
Today’s Guest:
Sujani Sivanantharajah is the founder and CEO of PH SPOT.
Sujani Sivanantharajah is a public health professional trained in Epidemiology. Her gift and passion lie in building relationships and using these relationships to create and cultivate spaces for people to find meaningful partnerships that can serve their communities. In 2017, this passion led her to build PHSPOT.org, a platform and community for public health professionals around the world to build their dream careers.
Sujani holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of Saskatchewan and an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
Featured on the Show:
- The Public Health Career Club
- Not Your Average Productivity Course: Get more done in less time, without hustling - A 5-week course for women in public health
Thank you to McKool Coaching for sponsoring this episode. Marissa McKool helps women in public health stop overworking and get more REST.
Join The Public Health Career Club: A global membership community where public health professionals connect, learn, and support each other in building meaningful and impactful careers.
Go from feeling confused, alone and overwhelmed, to feeling confident and in control of your life and career!
Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text!
This episode is from inside PH SPOT’s membership community: The Public Health Career Club.
You’ll get to listen in on a training session where career club members got a chance to ask Sujani questions. In this episode, we share one of those questions: How did you start PH SPOT? / How can I start a side hustle?
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
- How Sujani started to see herself as someone who could build solutions to solve problems.
- The story of the first side hustle she launched: a not-for-profit organization
- How and why PH SPOT was built
- Why PH SPOT is incorporated federally
- How to get started with your idea
- About The Public Health Career Club, PH SPOT’s membership community.
Today’s Guest:
Sujani Sivanantharajah is the founder and CEO of PH SPOT.
Sujani Sivanantharajah is a public health professional trained in Epidemiology. Her gift and passion lie in building relationships and using these relationships to create and cultivate spaces for people to find meaningful partnerships that can serve their communities. In 2017, this passion led her to build PHSPOT.org, a platform and community for public health professionals around the world to build their dream careers.
Sujani holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of Saskatchewan and an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
Featured on the Show:
- The Public Health Career Club
- Not Your Average Productivity Course: Get more done in less time, without hustling - A 5-week course for women in public health
Thank you to McKool Coaching for sponsoring this episode. Marissa McKool helps women in public health stop overworking and get more REST.
Join The Public Health Career Club: A global membership community where public health professionals connect, learn, and support each other in building meaningful and impactful careers.
Go from feeling confused, alone and overwhelmed, to feeling confident and in control of your life and career!
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Health educator to CEO of About Fresh/Fresh Connect, with Josh Trautwein
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In this episode, Sujani sits down with Josh Trautwein, the co-founder and CEO of About Fresh. They discuss what sparked the creation of About Fresh, Josh’s experience with bringing the company to life, and how About Fresh has been evolving and broadening food access to improve the health of more and more communities.
You’ll Learn
- What About Fresh is and what sparked the company’s conception
- What About Fresh’s mission is and how it aims to improve the health of communities
- What the early stages of starting About Fresh looked like and tips on navigating finances and other barriers with a new project or startup
- What services About Fresh offers and how Fresh Connect has evolved over time to incorporate technology and improve food access to even more communities
- What steps Josh took to identify a public health issue, brainstorm a solution, and successfully bring the solution to life
- The importance of drawing from similar pre-existing programs and engaging with the communities you want to serve
- How you can support or partner with About Fresh
Today’s Guest
Josh is the co-founder and CEO of About Fresh, a Boston-based company that combines food retail, technology, and community- driven activism to empower people to access and afford healthy food. He was inspired to start About Fresh in 2011 while serving as a community health worker at Mass General Brigham where he often encountered food insecurity among his patients. Josh is responsible for leading his team and board through mission-driven growth grounded in About Fresh core values. Outside of work, Josh plays and coaches soccer, grills, skis, and surfs. Josh grew up with his mom, grandmother, and a small extended family in Milford, MA, and currently lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kate.
Resources
- Follow Josh on LinkedIn
- Learn more about About Fresh and read their 2018 annual report here
- Learn more about Community Servings
- Learn more about the Rockefeller Foundation's Food Is Medicine initiative
Join The Public Health Career Club: A global membership community where public health professionals connect, learn, and support each other in building meaningful and impactful careers.
Go from feeling confused, alone and overwhelmed, to feeling confident and in control of your life and career!
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My First 10 Years In Public Health, With Sujani
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This episode walks through Sujani’s first 10 years of her public health career, as well as the highs and lows. This episode is inspired by a LinkedIn post that Sujani wrote that crossed 14,000+ views.
Thank you to McKool Coaching for sponsoring this episode. Marissa McKool helps women in public health stop overworking and get more REST.What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
- Sujani walks through her public health career (education, jobs, side projects, etc.) starting from 2011 to 2021!
- She talks about her MPH degree, public health jobs she had, interviews she failed, launch of her not-for-profit organization (the Tamil Health Association) and the birth of this company (PH SPOT).
- The ups and downs of these 10 years. What she did and didn’t do through these 10 years (for example, no formal education or certification, 55% increase in salary, the HUGE community she’s built around her, and more!)
- About The Public Health Career Club, PH SPOT’s membership community.
Today’s Guest:
Sujani Sivanantharajah is the founder and CEO of PH SPOT.
Sujani Sivanantharajah is a public health professional trained in Epidemiology. Her gift and passion lie in building relationships and using these relationships to create and cultivate spaces for people to find meaningful partnerships that can serve their communities. In 2017, this passion led her to build PHSPOT.org, a platform and community for public health professionals around the world to build their dream careers.
Sujani holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of Saskatchewan and an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
Featured on the Show:
- Sujani’s LinkedIn Page
- Tamil Health Association
- The Public Health Career Club
- Not Your Average Productivity Course: Get more done in less time, without hustling - A 5-week course for women in public health
Join The Public Health Career Club: A global membership community where public health professionals connect, learn, and support each other in building meaningful and impactful careers.
Go from feeling confused, alone and overwhelmed, to feeling confident and in control of your life and career!
Public Health SPOTlight Podcast - How did you start PH SPOT? / How can I start a side hustle? – Ask Me Anything With Sujani, From Inside The Public Health Career Club
Transcript
Hey, this is Sujani here. And before we get started with today's episode, I want to tell you about this course, which is super important. And I'm just going to take about three to four minutes to really explain it to you. And then we'll jump right into our episode for today. So this course, it's not a course that we developed here within PH SPOT. But it is a course that a colleague, a friend, a huge supporter of PH SPOT developed. And I really want
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